Many friends and family members of the rookies trying out for the Birds believe their friends and relatives have already made the football team, but the players themselves know it’s far from the truth.
They walk around on pins and needles now because they don’t want anybody telling them that the coach wants to see them and bring their playbooks.
It can happen anywhere. At your locker, in the cafeteria, on the way out to practice, at the airport or after a meeting with your position coach.
It’s the part of the game that is hard to watch because it’s painful and emotional. I never enjoyed seeing somebody’s dream get destroyed.
Playing in the NFL and making over $300,000 a year, as compared to being a substitute teacher or going back to college or getting a menial job back in your hometown are much different.
For most of the youngsters trying out for the Eagles, it has been more than a decade since they started their mission to play in the NFlL. They’ve climbed many mountains and overcome all type of obstacles to get to this point.
These youngsters have been amongst the best of the best. They shined in midget league during elementary school. They dominated in junior high school and they were campus heroes in high school.
They then went to college, worked hard, matured, made the all-star teams and stood above the crowd. They went through the workouts at their school and at the NFL combine, then experienced the NFL draft.
It’s been a long very successful journey up to this point.
Sometimes a player stays for a few games then out of no where he gets the bad news.
All NFL players at one point or another learns that it could all be over in an instant.
That simple haunting request of “The coach wants to see and bring your playbook” has destroyed many a dream.
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